Comment & Opinion

Whenever any one of us seeks expert advice — from a pastor, doctor, mechanic or plumber — we want to talk to someone we know we can trust. We trust so...

The Department of Homeland Security claimed to have saved $10.5 billion through cost-cutting measures led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Effi...

Whenever artificial intelligence comes up — particularly the possibility that it could threaten humanity — someone offers the obvious: Just unplug it....

In a post-industrial decay shot worthy of the Levi’s advertisement that helped put him on the map 16 years ago, John Fetterman stood in front of the M...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Political polarization has become so extreme that when Democrats and Republicans find common ground on a single issue — like their sh...

WASHINGTON. (TNS) — The Roman poet Juvenal used the Latin phrase for “bread and circuses” to describe the distractions used by First Century Roman rul...

I think of my mother sometimes when I’m doing what I’m doing. During our long-distance conversations and occasional visits, she’d say, “I’m trying to ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Over Labor Day weekend, I bought whiskey in a Giant Eagle. It was an uncanny experience for this lifelong Pennsylvanian, like check...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The next U.S.-China summit is scheduled for Sept. 24 in Washington, D.C., and expectations are low. It will be Chinese President Xi...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Earlier this month, as I was reporting a column about the unceremonious deportation to the U.K. of the immigrant-hating, right-win...

Picture this: All of the land and water from the end of Smethport Country Club, along Route 59 and Route 6, to the Nittany Mart, up the hill by the sc...

I don't know who may have been responsible for moving Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad to repair the crossing on Bolivar Drive, but, thank you! Now maybe...

At Republicans’ recent midterm convention, Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, began his remarks with his own version of a land acknowledgment. “I’d like to a...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Are Social Security benefits too generous? Some fiscal hawks and classic conservatives say the answer is yes, and see the upcoming de...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The healthcare affordability crisis is crushing everyone, but it has become downright calamitous for small businesses. Survey after s...

A response to Steve Disney’s opinion: “We need to oppose the socialist and communist trends gaining traction in the Democratic Party.” Begin by provid...

On Jan. 21, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a district that puts its own kindergartners on a yellow bus may hand a charter school kindergart...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Whatever the demographers say, I believe the line between millennials and Gen Z is whether or not you have a working memory of Sept...

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the largest attack on America. Today’s college seniors weren’t even alive when the attack happened. They’re famili...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, yet lawmakers in just half of states require teaching about the terro...